New South Wales in November 2016: A dry end to spring

November was a relatively dry month, with below average rainfall across
much of northern and eastern New South Wales. Daytime temperatures were
warmer than average, particularly near the coast, while nights remained
cool in inland regions.

Dry conditions return to NSW

Below average rainfall across most of northern and coastal NSW, with
closer to average rainfall in southern inland regions

Statewide average rainfall was 43% below average

Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rain, strong winds and hail
during the month, with the most widespread and severe storms overnight
on the 11th including significant damage in Broken Hill

Warm on the coast

Maximum temperatures were above average in coastal NSW and closer to
average elsewhere, with the statewide average maximum temperature 1.3
°C above average

Overnight temperatures remained below average in much of inland NSW
and 0.4 °C below average for the State as a whole

Notes

The Monthly climate summary, generally published on the first working
day of each month, lists the main features of the weather in New South
Wales using the most timely and accurate information available on the
date of publication; it will generally not be updated. More
extensive discussion of significant weather events, along with later
information and data that has had greater opportunity for quality
control, will be presented in the Monthly
Weather Review.

This statement has been prepared based on information available at 12
pm on Thursday 1 December 2016. Some checks have been made on the data,
but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes
available.

Averages for individual sites are long-term means based on
observations from all available years of record, which vary widely from
site to site. They are not shown for sites with less than 10 years of
record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the mean
of long-term average rain.

The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the
climate record for the site, based on the decile
ranking (very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in
decile 2 or 3, average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile
8 or 9 and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time
as a percentage
of the long-term mean.

Where temperature area averages are mentioned, they are derived from
the ACORN-SAT
dataset.